History. Region: South Asia. Pre-colonial & British India (not contemporary S. Asia)
Previous PhD Students
Saqib Nadim Baburi, 'Beyond the Akbar Namah: Padshah Namahs and Official Regnal Chronography for Shah-Jahan Padshah I (r.1037/1628-1068/1658)', 2013
Shahla Rahman Young, 'Changing Women’s Lives: A Study of Government Schools for Girls in Late Colonial Bengal', 2013
Research interests
Islam and Muslims in South Asia Relations between Christianity and Islam in S.Asia School textbooks (specifically History) Gender & Islam (historical)
Publications
Islamic Modernism and Women's Status. The Influence of Syed Ameer Ali
Powell, Avril (2006). In: Powell, Avril, (eds.) and Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan, (eds.), Rhetoric and Reality. Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 282-317
Scholar Manqué or Mere Munshi? Maulawi Karimu'd-Din's Career in the Anglo-Oriental Education Service
Powell, Avril (2006). In: Pernau, Margrit, (ed.), The Delhi College. Traditional Elites, the Colonial State, and Education before 1857.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 203-231
Indian Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Slavery in Islam
Powell, Avril (2006). In: Chatterjee, Indrani, (eds.) and Eaton, Richard M., (eds.), Slavery and South Asian History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp 262-86
"Pillar of a New Faith": Christianity in Late-Nineteenth Century Punjab from the Perspective of a Convert from Islam
Powell, Avril (2003). In: Frykenberg, Robert Eric, (ed.), Christians and Missionaries in India. Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500.. London: Routledge Curzon, pp 223-255
Modernist Muslim responses to Christian critique of Islamic culture, civilization and history in northern India
Powell, Avril (2002). In: Brown, Judith M., (eds.) and Frykenberg, Robert Eric, (eds.), Christians, Cultural Interactions and India's Religious Traditions. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, Routledge Curzon, pp 61-91
''Duties of Ahmadi Women'': Educative Processes In the Early Stages of the Ahmadiyya Movement
Powell, Avril (2000). In: Copley, Antony, (ed.), Gurus and their Followers: New Religious Reform Movements in Colonial India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp 128-156
Processes of Conversion to Christianity in 19th Century North Western India
Powell, Avril (1997). In: Oddie, Geoffrey A., (ed.), Religious Conversion Movements in South Asia: Continuities and Change 1800-1900. London: Curzon Press, pp 15-55